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Assessment of Climate Extremes Based on SPI in WL1a Agroecological Zone - A Case Study from Kuruwita, Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Mendis, B.R.C.
dc.contributor.author Rasmiya Begum, S.L.
dc.contributor.author Najim, M.M.M
dc.date.accessioned 2021-09-21T22:04:46Z
dc.date.available 2021-09-21T22:04:46Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.citation Rasmiya Begum S.L. & Najim, M.M.M. (2020). Assessment of Climate Extremes Based on SPI in WL1a Agroecological Zone - A Case Study from Kuruwita, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Technology, 1(1): 1-6. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/23250
dc.description.abstract Drought and flood are the simple most significant climatological hazards in Sri Lanka, which primarily affects agricul tural productivity. Proper understanding and investigation of climatic extremes like drought and floods, plays a key role in planning and management of household, municipal, agricultural and industrial activities even with varied water availability. Therefore, the present study aimed to asses onset, severity and occurrence of drought and wet episodes (months) in Kuruwita region, which belongs to the Low Country Wet Zone Agro-ecological region using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) at various time scales. SPI analyzed at 12 months’ time interval revealed that out of 45 years of study period (1961-2005), there were only four (1976, 1980-1981 and 1996) and six (1985-1986, 1988-1989, 2003-2004) drought and wet hydrological years, respectively. Further, the hydrological years 1981 and 2004 were identified as more affected years by drought and wet events, respectively, with relatively higher occurrence of climate extremes depicted by SPI, than normal conditions. The South-West monsoon (SWM) was found to be more prone to extreme climatic conditions, leading the Yala cropping season to become more abnormal with occurrence of more drought and wet months in Kuruwita. Therefore, the study suggests that implementation of proper mitigative measures like installation of rainwater harvesting systems, reuse or recycling of rainwater, cultivation of stress tolerant crop varieties, adaption of different cropping systems would be beneficial to minimize such adverse effects and for sustainable development in Kuruwita area en_US
dc.publisher Sri Lanka Journal of Technology en_US
dc.subject Drought, Kuruwita, Occurrence, SPI, Wet. en_US
dc.title Assessment of Climate Extremes Based on SPI in WL1a Agroecological Zone - A Case Study from Kuruwita, Sri Lanka en_US


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